Director of Nursing - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Description

The post holder will work closely with the interdisciplinary team and collaborate with colleagues to ensure that high quality patient care is maintained.

Co-ordinate the provision of specialist services to patients, both within hospital and/or in the community setting, effectively liaising with multidisciplinary colleagues

Develop and run nurse led clinics where the post holder will co-ordinate the treatment in conjunction with medical staff, and provide treatment which may include minor surgical procedures for patients.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts.

We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally.

We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and highly specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
Coordinate, lead and manage the activities of clinics on a day to day basis.
Establish regular dialogue with local and tertiary referral centres showing good practice.
Participate in professional nursing initiatives as an invited member to the TNMC.
Lead and participate in education and training programmes within the speciality service, and develop training packages as required.
Motivate, develop, support and identify training needs for department staff.

Be an independent prescriber according to the Trusts Non medical prescribing policy

Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of speciality with a wide range of approaches to the management of patients, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning and be able to comprehensively assess patients for risk factors and early signs of illness.

Ability to draw on a diverse range of knowledge in their decision making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions (which will usually include prescribing medication and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions)
Experience of running own clinics

RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Guys Hospital